Keep the Candle Burning: A re-enactment of Michael Faraday’s Christmas Lectures

Michael Faraday’s ‘Chemical History of a Candle’ was a series of Christmas lectures that he delivered three times at the Royal Institution. The final series (1860-1861) was published and became one of the best selling science books ever, still in print in English and translated into many other languages. This lecture, delivered in period costume, including live experimental demonstrations of candles, perhaps with explosions, explores why Faraday’s lectures remain as relevant today as in the nineteenth century, and thus provide an exemplar of communicating science.

Join us to experience a Victorian extravaganza with Professor Frank James, Professor Steve Miller, Mr Oliver Marsh, Ms Kaatje Lomme, and Ms Farrah Lawrence.

Thursday 11 December 2014
18.30 - 19.30
Christopher Ingold XLG2 Auditorium
20 Gordon Street, London WC1H 0AJ
Free event | no booking necessary
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/sts-publication-events/2014_12_11_chemicalhistoryofthecandle

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